by C. Hope Clark Today’s guest post comes from Hope Clark, the founder of Funds For Writers and author of the mystery Lowcountry Bribe. I noticed today that 45 out of 54 reviewers at Amazon have given her book 5-Star reviews. That’s great feedback! I have been very fortunate to know Hope over the...
Sometimes instead of publishing directly to an ebook store you may decide to publish through an “ebook aggregator”. An ebook aggregator deals with ebook authors directly and interfaces between them and ebook retailers such as Apple and Sony. The ebook aggregator may offer other services besides distribution, for example ebook design and formatting services....
Every day I receive multiple requests from authors around the world who are looking for assistance or more information on how to self-publish an ebook. And the answer today is very different than when our Publish Your Own Ebooks website started back in 2003. Then, your best option was to get your ebook into...
According to the latest sales report from the Association of American Publishers ebook net sales in January 2011 were up 115% over January 2010. They went from $32.4 million to $69.9m. This while overall book sales (all platforms, all categories) were down – almost 2%. These figures reflect domestic net sales for U.S. book...
The ebook publishing industry is moving very, very fast, however it is not too late to become involved. In case you haven’t been catching news from the world of ebooks, here are a couple of the latest announcements. Last month the New York Times recognized the growth of the ebook industry by announcing that...
An International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a number that uniquely identifies books and ebooks published internationally. It serves to identify a specific title or edition of a title from one publisher and is unique to that edition. This assists with efficient marketing and distribution by booksellers, wholesalers and distributors. An ISBN is 13...
Self-publishing company FastPencil is now offering writers the ability to publish e-books and release electronic versions of individual book chapters.
It's been a good Christmas season for ebooks. Not only are there new ebook reading devices popping up everywhere, but people are buying more and more ebooks.
John Wiley recently released its first e-book only trade book, “The Swine-Flu: The New Pandemic” by Dr. Marc Siegel, in a bid to get the most recent information on the topic out to readers as quickly as possible. And another publisher Little, Brown announced this week they will publish an e-book only update to...
Many people are unsure if there is money to be made in writing and selling ebooks. Other people are just too afraid to take the first step and get started. Here are a few myths about ebook publishing.
